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1. Daddy's girl
2. Dead ringer
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 8.
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Battling her sister in a heated dispute at the same time her law firm runs into financial trouble, attorney Bennie Rosato takes on a potentially lucrative class action suit and finds unexpected assistance from a mysterious stranger.
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3.8 stars
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A routine meeting between prosecutor Vicki Allegretti and a confidential informant ends in a double homicide and Allegretti barely escapes with her life. Allegretti can identify the killers and she sets out to see justice done. Her investigation leads her to Devil's Corner, a Philadelphia neighborhood teetering on the brink of ruin.
4. Dirty Blonde
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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While trying to become a partner at the cutthroat Philadelphia law firm where she works, Mary DiNunzio receives threatening phone calls from a dangerous stalker
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 16.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Late one night, a teenage African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death from the overpass above San Francisco's Stockton tunnel. But did she fall...or was she pushed? Rushing to produce a convictable suspect in the glare of the media spotlight, homicide inspectors focus their attention on a naive young man named Greg Treadway. Greg is a middle school teacher and he volunteers as a Special Advocate for foster children. At first,...
7. Final appeal
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3 stars
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Overwhelmed by her divorce, an affair with her boss, and a volatile assignment, lawyer Grace Rossi finds herself investigating a murder case involving judicial corruption
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 15.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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When one of his counselor wife's clients suspiciously disappears and the woman's husband, a San Francisco jail guard, is accused of her murder, lawyer Dismas Hardy examines possible suspects before discovering evidence of the corruption-related death of an inmate.
9. Killer smile
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 9.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When she receives personal threats and an associate is murdered, young lawyer Mary DiNunzio realizes that her latest case, involving a World War II internment camp suicide, may have deadly modern-day ties.
10. Legal tender
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When her former lover and partner, Mark Biscardi, is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect in the crime, Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato finds herself framed for murder, on the run from the cops, and searching for the real killer.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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A partner in an all-female Philadelphia law firm, Bennie Rosato ventures to the local prison to consult with a possible client, Alice Connolly, accused of cold-blooded murder, and discovers her double, who claims to be her long-lost twin sister.
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Dismas Hardy novels volume 14.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges in New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart's most suspenseful and intricately plotted novel to date"--
13. Pleasantville
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Jay Porter novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Acclaimed author Attica Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
"Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one...
14. Rough justice
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 3.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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On the eve of the acquittal of her client, defense attorney Marta Richter learns that he is guilty of murder and puts her life on the line to secure justice.
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Rosato and Associates novels volume 6.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Lawyer Judy Carrier agrees to defend an old Italian pigeon-keeper accused of murder, but the complexities of the case, which centers on a fifty-year-old vendetta, leave her in doubt of her ability to mount a convincing defense.